The first memory I had of the Internet was during the second grade when I started playing games on the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network. I heard about the websites from commercials that played during commercials. My parents weren’t very strict about my Internet use as long as it wasn’t while someone else was trying to talk on the home phone (90’s kid problems), but for some reason, I wasn’t really interested in exploring the web beyond playing games to avoid boredom.
Some time before I began middle school, I read a book called Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul. At the end of the book, there was a list of resources, including a website called preteenplanet.com. Although the book was somewhat dated by the time I read it, I decided to check the website out anyway. Preteen Planet shut down almost a decade ago, but at the time, it was a safe haven for tweens to play games, explore online advice message boards, participate in online contests, and browse e-cards. It was something that I really appreciated because at the time, the area I lived in didn’t offer many social opportunities for kids my age. It was the first time I felt like I was part of an online community.
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I didn’t find the Internet intriguing or communal after that until I discovered social media in the seventh grade when my friend introduced me to the ever-so-popular website, Facebook. From there, I then became interested in Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, marking the beginning of my Internet addiction. The notion of social currency (in the form of views, likes, comments, subscribers, retweets, and shares), the ability to search posts based on topics and other criteria, and the added ease of interaction with other members of the global community is what sets social media apart from the other online forums I previously used. I think these affordances, especially social currency, are partially what makes social media so addicting and keeps people coming
I agree with Holland’s claim because it affects me and all the other college students and job seekers. I believe that more should be done in school so that I am prepared when I start looking for a job. I believe that schools should offer more creative writing classes. In the article “A Passionate Unapologetic Plea for Creative Writing in Schools” written by Rebecca Wallace-Seagall, she states “If young people are not learning to write while exploring personal narratives and short fiction, it is because we as educators need more training- or the specifics of the curriculum need development”. I think that if I had more writing classes I would be more prepared and do better in higher level English classes. In my own experiences I found that reading
Because people are less communicating with each other, they try to find a good community that they want or hope on the internet. Today everyone commutates by social media. There are some people who are into social media more than others. This point was being claimed in the article “Students Addicted to Social Media”. Also, there is a divorced society in social media. That divorced was identified by social media users to describe other users on another social media site. That what Danah Boyd discussed in his article “Implications of User Choice: The Cultural Logic of “MySpace or Facebook?”. However, some people are into social media more than others that might be based on their economic and social level and
Once upon a time in a whimsical land where fairy tale characters roamed free, there lived a little pig, the third one to be exact, who found his existence upsetting. He, the smartest of the Three Little Pigs, was becoming discontented with his lifestyle under the reign of the mayor, the Big Bad Wolf. Every day the wolf would huff and puff and blow down his brothers’ houses and the helpless, homeless pigs begged their astute brother to rebuild their tenuous homes as they were before. Out of commiseration, the Third Pig always did. While he restituted the collapsed structures on a miserable, stormy day, the Third Little Pig, soaked with muddy water, cried out into the void, “By the hair on my chinny chin chin, I will not answer to the Big Bad Wolf, not ever again!” Upset, the pig stomped to his brothers and spoke defiantly,
To date, 1.7 billion people worldwide use the internet. The internet, good and bad, and yet it is entwined in almost every humans life. It has grown over the years and now basically keeps out world connected and unified. Around the globe people depend on the internet for everyday task such as communication, file sharing, and storing data. It is beneficial to the youth of learners by allowing access to information not easily obtainable by searching through books. In today’s generation the internet is more popular than ever. According to Ed. Laurie J. Fundukian 80% of children age five and under who used the internet in the United States do so weekly. (Fundukian) Everyone is online nowadays including the young and old. How the internet affects
As I saunter onto the school field, I survey the premises to behold people in coats, shielding themselves from winter's blues. The sun isn't out yet, but the place bursting with life and exuberance, with people gliding across the ice covered floor almost cat-like. The field is effervescent and despite the dire conditions, the field seems to have taken on a life of its own. The weather is bad and the ice seems to burn the skin if touched, yet the mood is still euphoric. The bare shrubs and plants about the place look like they've been whipped by Winter himself. The air is frosty and at every breath the sight of steam seems to be present. A cold, cruel northerly wind blows across the playground and creates unrest amongst some. Crack! The crisp sound of leaves is heard, as if of ice splitting and hissing. Squirrels are seen trying to find a point of safety, scurrying about the bare trees that lie around the playground. Mystery and enigma clouds the playing field, providing a sense of anticipation about the place. Who is going to be the person to spoil the moment? To kill the conversation?
It was the first day of sophomore year for many, but for Emma, today marked the beginning of her new identity. As she sat in homeroom, Emma shuddered as she recalled the moment she was told she was not allowed to return to Oakville High School. That was the reason she was sitting in an unfamiliar classroom, surrounded by unknown faces. The school was built with cinder blocks with white tiled floors, and the rooms were decorated with black and white educational posters. That didn’t matter to Emma, because there it was almost guaranteed that she wouldn’t have to face anybody from Oakville again. “How could they blame me for that? A fourteen year old girl who has never done anything horrible in her life, yet they think I would wreck a car!” Emma thought bitterly.
Teen Girl- Constant swaying the boat is always swaying it never stops. I miss my family I don’t know where I am and it smells. Men are constantly staring at me watching with their eyes as if they were undressing me. It causes shivers to go down my spine. The other night I woke up in a pool of sweat and started gagging uncontrollably. It’s because the food here is disgusting. I feel that Hope is the worse thing anyone could give to you. I heard whispering in other languages and then my own about how some groups had been formed and planned to take over the ship. There are so many whispers and strange voices I hear throughout the night. I hear screaming and coughing. One of my friend’s mom is on the ship. She is the captain’s favorite. If I am
So I ask, what is social media? Social Media is websites and applications that allow users to create and share contents or surf social networking. Social Media has its pros and cons. Some social media accounts ask a lot of questions and clarifications about your background, such as your number, email, birthday, and so on to confirm the account you want to make. Other social media don’t ask for much information, maybe just an email and number. Most social media sites say that you have to be at least 13 to make an account. It can be very addicting to people. Without social media, many of us would be bored because we don’t have that variety of didn’t entertaining or interesting things. You can post pictures on your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and so on and get a lot of likes and comments. Or if you post on snapchat, you’ll get a lot of views. Social Media gives you the control to post, like, comment, and share. It’s like having your own imaginary world that you have power over. As I said before, social media comes in all kinds of ways and everyone is dean to find something they like about it.
As technology becomes more important to our daily lives we have found that it has become a part of our culture to expect that everyone is connected to technology. There are articles like the ``The Flight From Conversation`` and ``Is Facebook Making Us Lonely`` that show that our continued use of technology has changed the way we think and act. Many people point their fingers towards social media sites as one of the culprits of this change. A majority of people argue that social media has had a negative effect on how we socialize, I would argue that technology is a tool that people use and that its effects, as a whole, are positive.
I look up, the sunlight peaking through the far-flung branches of the sparse old trees. The air is crisp and clean, the scent of spring floating on a soft breeze. A chill dances across the skin of my bare arms, sharpening the excitement evoked by the relative solitude. My bare feet step onto the cold, damp soil exposed by the worn path made by the frequent tread of small children.
Imagine it is one’s first day in high school. Standing in front befalls the entrance way to your new future, thinking of what lies ahead from the perspective of a middle school grad. One would perhaps have mixed emotions as to what to expect. Observing the new students around the corridors, it transpires as if they are dragging their feet to progress inside, for the reason that they are fresh from the blissful summer days; they are in exchange, yet again, to the reality of school homework, projects, reports and tests. Some have queries and doubts in their minds; what does one expect of themselves getting into a high school life such as this? “What remains in store for me, I wonder…” “This school year is going to be subsequently much tougher
Social media can be defined as websites that allow anyone to share information, updates, knowledge etc., and or to participate in social networking. A common activity for today’s society, this includes children, adolescents and adults. Some example of strong social media websites are twitter, Facebook Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr and so on allow social interaction via internet. These popular sites and other just like it offer entertainment and communication with people around the world. Although all of this seems to work in favor of us this new way of social interaction might be doing more harm than good. The internet is not only changing how we communicate but how we interact, emotionally and physically with other people, A.K.A fellow users. It may not seem evident at first but social networking is affecting our lives in many ways this includes our communication, self-expression, bullying, goals and our health.
The authors of the article. “The Social Media Buzz – What’s It All About?” define social networking as. “People gathering in and around websites to connect with their friends & family. To interact with new people and to share interests, activities and other personal content such as videos or photos. Companies traditionally use this social media to interact with their customers via company profile pages, and to advertise to target market segments” (Forte Consultancy Group). The article goes on and say. “The proliferation of online communities in the form of social media is one of the most noticeable trends on the web over the past several years. Not only has it redefined what the internet means in terms of its value offering, but has also become an indispensable element of a given person’s daily activities” (Forte Consultancy Group). According to the media’s portrayal, social networking is a phenomenon that has taken over the world. People across the globe have become a custom to, and even can become addicted to the connections that only these sites can
There is no question that easy access to the internet has changed the nature of people connect to others in their social world. The uses of the internet and watching TV have becoming a day to day activity in people’s lives. However, the amount of internet use is increasing among younger people than watching TV or reading hard copy books. Since internet does provide almost any information, it does make it easier to gain information about anything you want to learn. Internet is not only used to search information or use for entertainment, it has also become faster to communicate worldwide. However, college students and younger kids are spending too much time on the internet. Instead they should be out in the real world.
The internet is a network system to join computers worldwide, and was developed for a U.S. government project to improve military preparedness (Smith, 2002). Several inventions have changed the way people communicate with each other. From the old fashioned telegraph to today 's modern communication technology, people tend to create easier ways to correspond. Today’s communication technologies, such as e-mail and other internet chat programs, have created a cheap and incredibly fast communications system which is gaining steady popularity. Technologies, such as computers and the Internet, have become tangled in young people 's lives. “According to the Kaiser report, in 2004, 74% of 8-year olds to 18-year olds in the United States had Internet